{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":645668,"song":"I Wanna Be In The Cavalry Reprise","artist":"Corb Lund","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/645668-i-wanna-be-in-the-cavalry-reprise-chords-by-corb-lund/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/645668?type=chord","rating":4.77867,"votes":32,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                 [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nI wanna be in the cavalry if they send me off to war[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]B7[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI wanna good steed under me like my forefathers before[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nCourageous at first we took their worst, our positions we held stout[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nWe clung to belief and we hung on the speech from our trusted leaders' mouths[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                          [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nOverwhelming odds and a hopeless cause and our cities overrun[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]B7[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThere were them that said we was badly led and God were we outgunned[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nI lost count of the worthy mounts that from under me were cut[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nMy favourite mare with her head in the air took the cannon in her gut[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nIn the first two weeks on that bloody creek my brother lost his arm[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]B7[/ch]     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWas only sixty days till all we prayed us to get us home unharmed[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nO for the day that we signed our names and the well that we were wished[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nThe men's congrats and the pats on the backs and the ladies that we kissed[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nThe band that played and the grande parade and the patriotic shouts[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]B7[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAll faded fast, didn't even last till the uniforms wore out[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nAnd there were none to replace nor to help us face the winters cold and bleak[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nThat chilled to the bone the pneumonia prone and froze our bootless feet[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nThen the typhoid hit with its fevered fits, TB and dysentery[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]B7[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat prove in the end to have killed more men than the vilest enemy[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nWe were finally forced to feed on horse and carcass we could scrounge[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]E[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nWhen the wagons stopped and we'd burnt their crops to tarred and barren ground[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nWith morale in doubt and our pride run out no honour did I see[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]B7[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAll I seen were a thousand dreams piled dead in front of me[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Ending]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                 [ch]A[/ch]              [ch]C#m[/ch]\r\nI wanna be in the cavalry if they send me off to war[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                 [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]B7[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI wanna be in the cavalry but I won't ride home no more[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\n\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Ending]","chords":["E","A","C#m","B7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}